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Never mind that these kids were not only less obnoxious, but less violent than a lot of drunk Harvard assholes I've seen in Au Bon Pain on plenty of weekends. With Harvard students, Cambridge seems to adopt a boys-will-be-boys attitude...
Should the U.S. adopt similar restrictions? That may be difficult at this point. Such research is usually controlled indirectly through the federal purse strings: the government simply cuts off funding to projects Congress finds offensive. But that wouldn't work in this case since there is no federal funding for embryo research; experiments are financed largely by private money, much of it derived from the booming business of in-vitro fertilization...
Writing instructors could equally profit from such changes. Setting a clear dichotomy between the expository writing instructor and the discipline-specific writing instructor would create separate standards for each. In the first semester, the course could adopt a lecture format combined with weekly personal tutorials. The seminar-style classes in use discourages the instructor from really leading the class; the lecture format would permit him or her to play a greater role...
...until those who wield the procreation argument commit themselves to a condemnation of heterosexual couples who--because of either choice or infertility--have no children, their "argument" deserves no discussion. Their failure to denounce childless heterosexual couples (or heterosexual couples who choose to adopt rather than to procreate) suggests that they are merely using the procreation "argument" to mask their bigotry...
FOREIGN AID Thriving markets, Clinton says, are impossible without free trade. Totally free markets are a myth, but the Administration's recent decision to adopt "tied-aid" practices is inconsistent with Clinton's support for NAFTA and for a new, freer global-trade regime. Tied aid forces recipients of U.S. financial help to spend some of the dollars they receive on American goods and services. The U.S. has long criticized Japan, France, Germany and other countries for attaching strings to roughly $6 billion in their foreign assistance in exactly the manner Clinton has now proposed. "There is way too much...